THE ORCHID REVIEW. 363 
ABNORMAL TEMPERATURES. 
The changes of our climate are most astonishing, for a day or two ago 
I instructed my gardener to remove all the blinds off my Orchid houses, as 
I thought that, in our smoky district, there would not be any possible need 
for them. I was mistaken, for to-day, November 4th, we have had one of 
the most brilliantly sunny days of the season, and our various temperatures 
have ruled very high, viz. :— 
East Indian House, South aspect, 83° Fahr. 
Cypripedium House, warm, East, 77°. 
Cypripedium House, warm, East and West, 76°. 
Dendrobium House, East and West, 76°. 
Cattleya House, South, 75°. 
Intermediate House, South, 77°. 
Odontoglossum Houses, East and West, 65° and 63°. 
The outside temperature in the shade was 53°, and all the top and 
bottom ventilators were wide open. 
O. O. WRIGLEY. 
Bridge Hall, Bury, Lancashire. 
LAELIA BOOTHIANA AND L. CRISPA. 
I have a rather rare Orchid which has been out a month, and has 
maintained its delightful perfume up to now. In the Orchid Grower’s 
Manual it is called Cattleya lobata, but it'also has the names of Lelia 
Boothiana and L. lobata. It should flower in May, but one new bulb 
has sent a spike of two flowers, while the two other new ones look as if 
they would flower later. I consider it a very beautiful thing, and think 
it a pity that there should be so much difference of opinion about it. I 
enclose a flower, from which you will see that there are eight pollen sacs, 
and therefore the plant is a Laelia. 
A few months ago I flowered a ‘‘ Cattleya crispa’’ which had held its 
sheaths dormant for eighteen months or two years, but this summer they 
have come out. I was surprised to find it also had eight pollen sacs, 
which should be sufficient to fix its position as a Laelia. I think here 
is sufficient interesting matter for an article in the ORCHID REVIEW. 
E. ASHWORTH. 
Harefield Hall, Wilmslow. 
(Both these plants are unquestionably Lelias, and such they ought to 
be called, though originally described as Cattleyas, before the limits of the 
two genera were properly understood—the latter, indeed, before the genus 
